Urgent Call from The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions to Organize an International Labour Delegation to Iraq!!

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

On the eve of war on Iraq by the U.S. government and its allies, KCTU urgently calls on workers all over the world to organize an International Labour Delegation to Iraq.

The threatened invasion of Iraq is not in the interest of workers or people – in Iraq or the rest of the world. An invasion of Iraq would be illegal, counter-productive in terms of its stated objective of increasing world security, undemocratic and would devastate the tremendously vulnerable Iraqi society and people – over half of whom are children.

KCTU is also concerned with events in Iraq because the U.S. government is driving another war on the Korean peninsula with regards to the North Korea nuclear issue. Regardless of the demands of the Korean people to solve the issue in a peaceful manner, the U.S. government is increasing military tension on the Korean peninsula by considering a preemptive nuclear attack option.